Did you ever hear Hilary Rodham Clinton say, “it takes a village”? She was referring to raising children but I would argue that it applies to everyone. Humans are meant to support each other and to live among other humans. We aren’t born alone and we depend on other humans to keep us alive in…
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Is it my imagination or is there a lot of marketing for alcohol directed at women? For generations, we’ve glamorized drinking in general as a way to unwind, be social and just live our lives. When I was growing up, an evening cocktail or two, or three, was normal. Now, it seems that wine is…
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I decided today is a good day to share some interesting (to me) facts that you may or may not know about. These facts are important to me for several reasons. I am both a breast cancer survivor, and dare I say thriver, and a heart attack survivor too. All of the facts I’m sharing…
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Spring is here! But you already knew that. The days are getting longer. You already knew that too. Did you put on a few pounds over the winter? Even if you’re lucky enough to have maintained or even lost weight (if that was your goal), did your exercise suffer in the cold, dark, dreary winter?…
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“What surprises me most is ‘Man’, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; the result being he doesn’t live in the present or the future; he lives as if…
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I am a master procrastinator. I like to say it’s genetic because my father was an expert also. But really, I can’t blame him because I learned his bad habit. I’m an adult and I make my own choices. What is procrastination and why do we do it? According to the Oxford Dictionary, procrastination is…
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One of the most important things you can do for your body is to move it every day. And I don’t just mean from the couch to the fridge and back again. You don’t have to be a marathon runner or a heavy-weight bodybuilder. You don’t have to spend hours at the gym. There are…
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One of my favorite guilty pleasures was watching ‘Lucifer’ on Netflix. I never watched it when it originally aired but once I found it, I was hooked…because you know, Tom Ellis. I found the ‘Lucifer’ premise intriguing that we actually create our own version of hell from the regrets we still have when we die.…
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